“The Glory of Team Rocket” Set Officially Revealed Featuring Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex!

[Water Pokémon Master]

Japan’s long-awaited The Glory of Team Rocket set has finally been revealed! It will release on April 18th.

The set will feature the return of Team Rocket’s Pokemon. As predicted, all of them will be named “Team Rocket’s ____,” but will have different Trainer icons on the cards such as Giovanni or Proton. All of them will share the “R” symbol.

The Glory of Team Rocket will contain 98 cards in its main set. We should see around 130 cards after secret rares.
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[paulitics532]

See, the good news is that once this set comes out, the demand for JTG will go down enough to possibly be obtainable!

 

[Raigetsu]

Wooooooo Porygon!

 

[MegaFlygon]

Digging that AR

 

[Charmaster:)]

I saw Giovanni’s Mewtwo ex and thought “Hold on, it has how much HP now?” Then I Google translated its ability assuming your opponent would need to take a certain number of prize cards for it to attack or something.

“This Pokemon can only be annoying when you have 4 or more "Rocket Fungus Pokemon" on your field.”

As wildly botched as that translation is, I can tell it’s the same as Team Magma’s Groudon, which, incidentally, also had a freakishly high HP for its class (In its case, single prize basics, as other Groudon usually had 80 HP and it instead had the 100 HP on par with the numerous Groudon ex).

 

[Alex Hesketh]

Proton?!? a paldea pokemon?? Oh they got me they got me good. And Archer full art this is what glory feels like

 

[Charmaster:)]

Digging that AR

First Giovanni’s Charisma SAR, then Persian AR, and now this? And a seemingly new setting in every illustration?
He’s may be a criminal, but he’s a well traveled criminal.

 

[ApricornNut]

 

[vexel]

I need that rocket's briefcase!!!

 

[dineinunes]

I think this Meowth AR might be our ETB promo.

 

[Shinryu]

That briefcase is super awesome! Shame it’ll probably never see the light of day here. How can one order it from Japan without knowing someone in Japan?

 

[TheMaskMaker]

The Rocket briefcase…It’s finally back…(sans promos, but still)

 

[JaniK]

280HP for basic Rocket's Mewtwo ex is actually good. can attack up to 280 damage and having 4 Rocket's Pokemon is not difficult on the bench

 

[Yaginku]

I have to say, this looks pretty hype. Which might have negative consequences for the people trying to get their hands on it.

Also, if the entire set it either Rocket's Pokemon or Giovanni's Pokemon, it will be an extremely "closed" set with very few interactions outside of itself. Such is the downside of the Trainer's mechanic.

 

[Flamewheel]

Can’t beat the originals when it comes to the artwork (for me at least), but boy am I looking forward to this next set. Can’t wait to see Rocket’s Mewtwo ex SIR.

 

[Charmaster:)]

Also, if the entire set it either Rocket's Pokemon or Giovanni's Pokemon, it will be an extremely "closed" set with very few interactions outside of itself. Such is the downside of the Trainer's mechanic.

Ethan’s Typhlosion finding its way into decks it has no business in: “Hold my beer and watch this!”
… yes, apparently Ethan’s Typhlosion/Gholdengo ex is a deck in Japan. Also, Lillie’s Clefairy and Steven’s Metagross still leave plenty of room for deck building creativity. But the rule usually remains the same.

 

[SlumberingWeald]

Loving the art on all 3 Porygon and the Spidops. Can’t wait to see more

 

[Charmaster:)]

First to mention Guzma is back. Interesting way to archetype-lock it, but I wonder if there will be any Rocket’s Pokémon with Abilities that activate in the active.

 

[bwyattvirtue13]

This feels like Mewtwo VSTAR all over again only maybe worse? It's damage is capped at 280 was 270 for the VSTAR. It powers up by discarding energy. And ya it has really high HP for a basic but at the cost of having to have 4 Pokémon on your bench and being limited to only using Rocket Pokémon. I had pretty high expectations but I don't see this being a very good deck.

 

[lilrizky]

Briefcase is a must.

And I want the sleeves for my WOTC rocket set haha.

Still holding out for the other meowth illustration art that has yet to get an English translation yet for the Dex